Grid Poet — 24 August 2026, 22:00
Wind onshore leads at 12.5 GW but brown coal, hard coal, and gas fill a 10.7 GW import gap at night.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a late-August evening, German consumption sits at 49.1 GW against domestic generation of 38.4 GW, requiring approximately 10.7 GW of net imports. Wind onshore provides the largest single source at 12.5 GW, but the renewable share of 48.3% is insufficient to suppress thermal dispatch: brown coal contributes 9.5 GW, hard coal 4.7 GW, and natural gas 5.6 GW. The day-ahead price of 171.8 EUR/MWh is elevated, reflecting the tight supply-demand balance, significant import dependency, and the cost of running a broad fossil fleet after sunset. With solar output at zero, full cloud cover, and moderate onshore wind, this is a structurally typical summer night where residual load of 10.8 GW keeps all dispatchable thermal units committed.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless August pall the turbines hum their restless psalm, while coal fires burn through curtained dark to keep the gridlines taut and warm. The land draws breath it cannot make alone—ten silent gigawatts borrowed from beyond the border's seam.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 25%
48%
Renewable share
13.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.4 GW
Total generation
10.8 GW
Net import
171.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.4°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
367
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.5 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky, lit from below by orange sodium floodlights; hard coal 4.7 GW sits just right of centre as a pair of industrial coal plants with tall square chimneys and conveyor belts, illuminated by harsh halogen work-lights; natural gas 5.6 GW appears centre-right as two compact CCGT power stations with slender single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by blue-white security lighting; wind onshore 12.5 GW spans the entire right third and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the pitch-black sky, rotors turning slowly in moderate wind; wind offshore 0.6 GW is barely suggested as a few distant turbine lights on the far-right horizon; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and single smokestack in the middle distance, warmly lit; hydro 1.2 GW is represented by a small concrete dam structure at the far left edge with illuminated spillway water. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, 100% overcast with no stars and no moon visible, an oppressive low cloud ceiling reflecting the faint industrial glow in muddy amber tones. The landscape is a rolling central German plain in late summer, vegetation dark and lush but invisible except where caught by artificial light. The atmosphere feels heavy and close, 15°C summer night humidity hanging in the air. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro from artificial lighting against total darkness, atmospheric depth with haze and steam, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower flute, and gas-turbine exhaust cowling. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 24 August 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-24T20:20 UTC · Download image